NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) – Police are investigating after one person was killed and five others injured following a dispute between two groups of teenagers at a Bronx subway station Monday at the start of the evening rush hour, officials said. The hunt is on for at least one suspect.
The shooting happened at the Mount Eden train station around 4:30 p.m., police said.
A 34-year-old man was killed, police said.
The wounded included a 14-year-old girl and 15-year-old boy, and three adults, ages 28, 29 and 71.
Some of the victims were believed involved in the dispute and others were waiting for the train, authorities said, describing four of the injuries as serious.
“We don’t believe this was a random shooting. We do not believe that this was an individual indiscriminately firing into a train or a train station,” NYPD’s chief of transit, Michael Kemper, said at a news conference. “This incident today occurred as a result of two groups that started fighting while on a train.”
The gunfire erupted when the train pulled into the station, Kemper said, striking people on the platform.
“The doors opened up and at least one of the individuals in that group, or in the two groups, took out a gun and fired shots,” Kemper said. “People started running off the train onto the platform and more shots were fired on the platform.”
The Mount Eden train station serves the 4 trains which runs between 149 St.-Grand Concourse to Burnside Avenue.
No arrests have been made so far.
An investigation is ongoing.